Old wife Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions

1. . In the senses b and cwritten also oldwife. (a) A prating old woman; a gossip.

   Refuse profane and old wives' fables. 1 Tim. iv. 7.

   (b) (Zoöl.) The local name of various fishes, as the European black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus), the American alewife, etc. (c) (Zoöl.) A duck; the old squaw.